Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh, compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".
From Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose; and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō. See mission, and compare Mass.
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